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An Apology From The Physics Community
Physics Biology Chemistry Science Medicine
28 days ago 5.5K views 0 shares
An Apology From The Physics Community
Remember when physicists spent centuries strutting around like the superheroes of science? Then COVID hit and suddenly biologists and chemists were saving the world while physicists were just... calculating things in their pajamas! 🧪💉 The great reckoning has arrived! After generations of stealing the spotlight with their fancy equations and theoretical particles, physicists finally had to watch from the sidelines as their lab coat cousins actually, you know, solved a REAL crisis. The ultimate revenge of the "soft sciences"! And now they're all "Perhaps I treated you too harshly" like some defeated cosmic villain. Too late, physics friends! We've seen you in your natural habitat - theorizing while the world burns!

The Exponential Irony Of 2020
Math Science
1 month ago 4.1K views 0 shares
The Exponential Irony Of 2020
The graph itself is an exponential curve showing the "Time spent looking at exponential graphs" during the first three months of 2020. It starts flat in January, begins to curve in February, and then SHOOTS UP in March! 🚀 It's mathematical inception! The very act of studying this meme increases the validity of the data! *frantically scribbles equations on chalkboard* Don't you see?! The more COVID charts we analyzed in early 2020, the more time we spent looking at exponential curves, which itself follows an exponential pattern! In March 2020, we all suddenly became amateur epidemiologists obsessed with "flattening the curve" – the exact opposite of what this graph is doing! The irony would be delicious if it weren't so mathematically accurate!

Pythagoras Tweaking
Math Science
1 month ago 6.4K views 0 shares
Pythagoras Tweaking
The social distancing diagram shows four people positioned in a square, each 6 feet apart, creating perfect right triangles. Meanwhile, Pythagoras is having an absolute breakdown because the hypotenuse between diagonal people would be 8.5 feet, not 6 feet as labeled. The mathematical inconsistency has sent him into a theorem-induced rage while modern scientists attempt to restrain him. Classic case of ancient Greek mathematician vs. pandemic graphics department.

Engineering Students' Pandemic Superpower
Engineering Academia Tech
2 months ago 8.9K views 0 shares
Engineering Students' Pandemic Superpower
Engineering students experiencing a moment of pure relief! While everyone else is avoiding human contact to prevent virus spread, engineers are living their best life because they were social distancing before it was cool! The stereotype of engineers having minimal social interaction isn't just a joke—it's their superpower during a pandemic! Nature's way of saying "your countless hours coding alone in your dorm room have prepared you for this moment!"

Ribosomes' Existential Crisis
Biology Medicine Science
4 months ago 9.9K views 0 shares
Ribosomes' Existential Crisis
Picture this: You're a ribosome, just doing your job translating mRNA into proteins. Then suddenly, you realize you've been tricked into making viral spike proteins instead of your usual cellular fare. The betrayal is palpable. You've unwittingly become the manufacturing plant for the very pathogen that's going to wreck the organism you're supposed to serve. Talk about an existential crisis at the molecular level. Your whole protein-making career, reduced to being a viral accomplice. No wonder you're staring into the void wondering where it all went wrong.

White Blood Cells: The Bouncers Of Your Immune System
Biology Medicine Science
4 months ago 14.3K views 0 shares
White Blood Cells: The Bouncers Of Your Immune System
The meme brilliantly captures how our immune system works with vaccines! It uses SpongeBob characters to show white blood cells confronting a COVID virus with the frustration of a teacher dealing with a repeat offender. What's happening biologically: vaccines introduce a harmless version of a pathogen, training your immune system to recognize and fight it. By the third COVID vaccine, your white blood cells are basically saying "We've seen this guy before and know exactly what to do with him!" They're like bouncers who've already kicked out the same troublemaker twice. The beauty is in how it personifies immune cells as exasperated defenders who've memorized the threat. Your adaptive immunity at work – just with more attitude than your biology textbook mentioned!

Covid Vaccine: The Ultimate No U
Medicine Biology Science
4 months ago 10.7K views 0 shares
Covid Vaccine: The Ultimate No U
The ultimate molecular bamboozle! This meme brilliantly captures how mRNA vaccines trick our immune system with a sneaky genetic switcheroo. In the top panel, our paranoid immune cell is freaking out about "foreign mRNA" from a virus, ready to obliterate it. But in the bottom panel, the vaccine's modified mRNA has replaced the uracil (U) nucleotides with pseudouridine (Ψ), essentially wearing a disguise that makes our immune system go "Wait, what RNA? I don't see anything suspicious here!" It's like showing up to a costume party wearing your enemy's face and nobody recognizes you! The molecular trickery of replacing U with Ψ is why mRNA vaccines can deliver their genetic instructions without getting immediately destroyed. Pure scientific genius wrapped in cartoon form!

Correlation Equals Causation: The Conspiracy Theorist's Handbook
Conspiracy Engineering Academia Science
4 months ago 10.5K views 0 shares
Correlation Equals Causation: The Conspiracy Theorist's Handbook
The pandemic timeline according to conspiracy theorists! First, classes move online because of COVID. Then, mysteriously, "COVID engineers" graduate and enter the workforce. And suddenly—planes start falling out of the sky? Twice?! Because obviously, engineering education works better in person when you can physically touch the laws of aerodynamics. This perfectly captures how conspiracy minds connect completely unrelated events with imaginary causation. Remote learning → unqualified engineers → aviation disasters. Next they'll blame the microchips in vaccines for making pilots forget how to fly!

Immunity By Involuntary Isolation
Engineering Academia
4 months ago 7.2K views 0 shares
Immunity By Involuntary Isolation
Engineering students just got murdered by their own university. The tweet essentially says "avoid contact with romantic partners... unless you're an engineering student because, well, we all know you don't have any." The casual brutality with which the University of Alberta acknowledges the stereotypical social desert of engineering student life is both savage and statistically accurate. The data doesn't lie—those differential equations aren't the only things going unsolved in their lives.

The Geometry Of Staying Safe
Math Science
4 months ago 8.4K views 0 shares
The Geometry Of Staying Safe
Who needs vague pandemic guidelines when you can calculate exactly how far away to stand from other humans? The top panel shows rejection of plain "social distance" instructions, but the bottom panel shows enthusiastic approval for the Euclidean distance formula √(x₂-x₁)² + (y₂-y₁)². Finally, a way to mathematically prove you're following health protocols! Just whip out your calculator at the grocery store and scream "YOU'RE 1.92 METERS AWAY, WE'RE GOOD!" Pandemic safety for nerds who prefer precision over approximation!

When Math Jokes Go Extinct
Math Science
4 months ago 10.8K views 0 shares
When Math Jokes Go Extinct
The dinosaur comedian is bombing harder than the asteroid that wiped out his ancestors! This mathematical mishap hinges on a classic double negative joke. When something tests "negative twice" in math, it's actually positive (−1 × −1 = 1). But in COVID testing, negative just means... well, negative! Our scaly stand-up thought he was delivering mathematical brilliance, but his audience of prehistoric pals is clearly not impressed. The tearful final panel shows the brutal reality of comedy evolution—adapt your material or face extinction! 🦖🎤

When Covid Ova: The Great Particle Reunion
Engineering Physics Medicine Tech
4 months ago 14.1K views 0 shares
When Covid Ova: The Great Particle Reunion
Looking at this ANSYS simulation is taking me back to those pandemic dreams! This is computational fluid dynamics showing what happens when two people sneeze or cough near each other - those colorful particle clouds aren't just pretty patterns, they're showing how respiratory droplets travel through space! Engineers used these exact simulations to figure out safe social distancing guidelines. The irony of planning post-COVID particle fights when these particles were exactly what kept us apart for so long is just *chef's kiss* perfect scientific humor!